Bits to Bytes: Programming how I wish I had learned it
I've waffled on a lot about how to start this thing and I think the best place is with this: learning computers right now kinda sucks. There's a lot, and I mean a lot of programming tutorials out there. It's a real ocean of content... but with the depth of a mud puddle. Build a React app in under 5 minutes! This simple API framework makes your code faster! Please click on my low effort article I really need the validation!
There's a lot of beginner friendly content that all focuses on results and puts off all that inconvenient technical theory until later. Of course, there's not really a lot of content that covers all the skipped theory that's accessible to people already familiar with the basics. Have you ever tried to find information on JavaScript best practices or optimization within a framework? It's fucking impossible.
I'm a mostly self taught programmer. I learned the very basics from an early age (using BASIC on the old family PC), but the rest of this shit I kind of had to figure out for myself. And all those little bits of technical theory that gets glossed over was the trickiest to pick up on. Keep in mind if you do actually read this thing that I am hardly an expert here; my knowledge gaps are frequent and scattered. Despite that, I'll do my best.